‘Clarissa Explains It All’ Reboot Starring Melissa Joan Hart In The Works
Everything old is new again! Nickelodeon is currently working on aClarissa Explains It Allreboot, with original starMelissa Joan Hart set to return. Clarissa’s annoying brother Ferguson could not be reached for comment.
RememberClarissa Explains It All? It’s back, in reboot form.The Wrapreports Nickelodeon is eyeing aClarissareboot, and they plan to bring original star Melissa Joan Hart back. Original series creatorMitchell Kriegmanis also in talks to write and executive produce.
The original series ran from 1991 to 1994 on Nickelodeon. Hart starred as as Clarissa Darling, a fourth-wall-breaking teen who lives with her parents and her annoying brother Ferguson. Occasionally, her best friend Sam would climb into Clarissa’s bedroom window via a ladder to the tune of the same guitar riff every time. Even though I watched the show religiously as a youth, I honestly can’t remember a single storyline for the show. Go figure. Here’s a vintage promo for the show, featuring a scene involving worms!
Clarissa Explains It All
Clarissa Explains It Allwas one of the very first sitcoms on Nickelodeon. At the time Kriegman pitched the show to Nick, the network primarily ran game shows likeDouble Dare. The only other sitcom they featured wasHey Dude. “[Nickelodeon Program Manager] Gerry Laybourne had done a ton of studies with an ad agency about the potential audience,“Kriegman said. “[S]he was really developing her philosophy, which had a lot to do with the network being on the side of the kid, rather than, say, on the side of the toy company. It would be really pure in its intentions—the shows had to be what kids wanted, instead of what adults wanted. It was a bit of the anti-Disney at that time.”
The newClarissawill feature Hart’s character as a mom. This sounds like the latest attempt to drum up some TV nostalgia. Some others:
A rebootedClarissaisn’t the worst idea, I suppose. And bringing Hart back is a nice touch. Interestingly enough,Sabrina the Teenage Witch, another character Hart played on TV, is getting an all-new take courtesy ofNetflix. Perhaps Netflix can talk Hart into appearing there as well.
